Newport Jazz Festival 1963 "Old Time Hoofers" Coles, Charles "Honi" performer Cook, Charles "Cookie" performer Nugent, Pete performer Green, Charles "Chuck" performer Atkins, Charles "Cholly" performer Brown, Ernest "Brownie" performer Festival 1963-07-06 Newport Jazz Festival Seven dancers in a show billed as "Old-Time Hoofers": At the matinee: Cholly Atkins, Ernest Brown, Honi Coles, Cookie Cook, Chuck Green, and Pete Nugent, introduced by Marshall Stearns, with trumpeter Clark Terry, Gildo Mahones on bass and piano, Sam Woodyard on drums. Leticia Jay pronounces this single performance as "The one event that revived tap dancing." The evening performance was billed as Baby Laurence and Bunny Briggs , but Briggs, according to Leticia Jay's review, did not performed with the Duke Ellington Band in a show titled "Old Time Hoofers." Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Jay, Leticia: The Wonderful Old Time Hoofers at Newport. Dance Magazine, New York, Aug 1963, p 18-19. (1963). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Ernest "Brownie" Brown (biography) loc.music.tdabio.31 Charles "Cholly" Atkins (biography) loc.music.tdabio.17 Charles "Chuck" Green (biography) loc.music.tdabio.102 Pete Nugent (biography) loc.music.tdabio.145 Charles "Cookie" Cook (biography) loc.music.tdabio.58 Charles "Honi" Coles (biography) loc.music.tdabio.43 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1774